From a town hall meeting in South carolina on April 2nd ... the following is Obama's response when challenged that his "decision to allow offshore drilling could have the effect of chilling investment into alternate sources of energy." While recognizing that "energy efficiency and renewable, clean energy" is his "biggest priority,"

"I don't agree with the notion that we shouldn't do anything. It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn't come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore."

BTW .... Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused 124 Offshore Spills For A Total Of 743,700 Gallons.

Clean energy should be the biggest priority.

Democrats or Republicans ... nothing has changed ... same old bar stool, same old beer, same old song playing in the juke box ... "drill, baby drill"

biLL